Improvement in meat-blocks



Lucrus orsYRAAcUsE, NEW ro'nK.y

Lehm' Patent No. 90,104, dazed M/J 18,1869.

IMPRVEMENT IN MEAT-Snoeks.

The Schedule referred toy in these Letters Patent axdmaking part of the name.`

To` all )whom 'it .may coiwefm: Y

Be it known'that I, LUCIUs-H. IvEs, of the city of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, and State of `New York, have invoutedfa new'aud improved Meat- Block andl do hereby declare that ,the following is a full, clear, and exact'description of the same, reference being had to the annegred drawings, making a part of this specification, wherein- Y `Figure [represents aperspective view.

Figure 2,' a sectional view. The letters represent corresponding parts wherever they occur. l p K To enable others skilled in the art to Amake and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the construction of the same, and its forni when complete and ready foruse. i n I make a. frame of any desired size, with a plank bottom or. base A, and legs, aa a, and with: arframe or casing, B, to .receive and securely hold the sections ooootherein. y

I makethe sections o o 0 o of l proper size, and of the requisite number to Vll up the space Inadeby the casing B,1and,they should be made of beech, maple,

hickory, or therhard wood, `and so arranged, as near as may be, that bolts 4co c may be made to pass through them, with one or both ends provided with a 'screw thread, land not tol draw the sections firmly together,

passing through the same in such directions and in such numbers as to eectually secure that object.

And the wholev series of sections, with the bolts` Y through them, is held down to the base Ain a rm and secure manner, by means of the hooks h. h h, passing over the bolts cc c, and with a thread and screwnut at the bottom mm m, for holding the sections down and firmly keeping them in place.

VI also use the iron or other metal the upper part of thesections o o o o, which, by being shrunk around them when heated, and held by bolts or screws in any ordinarymanner, will keep the sections in proper place, and prevent open spaces between the sections. y

By making and securiug'the meat-block-in sections,

as'above provided, I am enabled to have it of any de- Y sire'd size, and of any kind of Yhard wood, even though `it may be too small to bel'used in a single block. t Y What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure yby Letters Patent, is-

`A meat-block made in sections, and boltedand held together and `in place, above set forth;

Witnesses:

' N. B. SMITH,

C. W. SMITH.

l I.. H. Ives.-

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